Cultivator.



I'. F. MEEKER. 'OI'.LTIVATORl APPLIOATION PLLBD 1120.4, 191s,

l@ Amm/vn THE NOR/els PETLRS CO.. PHOTa-LITHO.. WASHINOTUN. D. t:y

Patented Sept. 29, 1914.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT onnion. j

FREDERICK r. MEEKER, or wEsTroitT, corinaoTIoU'r.'`

CULTIVAToit. j

To aZZfw/Lom it may concern Be 1t known that I, FREDERICK Westport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cultivators; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description hand cultivator sho-wing all but the adjust-` able feature of the attachment, broken sectional view o-f the metal propelling arms on line a-a of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is an enlarged rear elevation of my attachment connected to one of the cultivator arms and a sectional view of said arm through line ZJ-b of Fig. 1; Fig. 1 is an enlargedplan view of one of the parts of theattachment; Fig. 5 is an enlarged broken upper plan view of one of j the cultivator arms adapted to support the attachment; and Fig. 6 is a view showing a belt for driving the disk or weeder wheel.

The hand cultivator1 illustrated in the drawings is of the 'usual double construction comprising the traction wheels 1 and 2 secured to the shafts 3 and 4, ournaled in the blocks 5. G are pairs of arms attached to these blocks, each pair united at the rear of the wheels and connected by the cross bar 7 to which the handle S is secured. Arms 9` and 10 are also secured by their inner ends `to said blocks, while their outer ends carry the usual hoes 11 and 12.

As the attachment on both halves of the cultivator are exactly alike, the same figures of reference will answer for both.

13 is a thm metal disk or cultivator wheel secured to the shaft 14 journaled in the bearing 15 suspended from the forked lug 16 by means of the stud 17 which has a lateral adjustment in said lug and is secured thereto by the nut 18. The propeller wheel for F.MEEKER, citizen of the United States, residing at bedded 'cultivator wheels.

Specification of Letters Patent. 1);,1-@111-,341l Sept, 29, 1914, Application flied nece'miier 4, 1913. sriai No. 804,586. i

rotatinggthe cultivator wheelby its Contact with the ground-comprises the hub 19 having the radially disposed spokes v20.

21 is a leveling vguard locatedo'utside o-f the-cultivator*wheel and Vis secured by its inner end to the bolt` 22 while its outer end is adjustably supported to the arm 10 as follows: 23 is a bolt secured to the guard 21 and projecting up through the forked adjustingplate 24 secured to the arm by the nut 18. The height o-f the guard is adjusted and secured in `its adjusted positions `by 4means of the nuts 25, 26. The lower odset edge or foot 27 of the guard normally lies close to the cultivator wheel toprevent stones being carried up by" said wheel.

In operating the device, the cultivator wheels are setI at the proper angle with respect to the row of vegetables to be cultivated-represented by dotted line A-so as to thoro-ughly pulverize the ground, and by their angular j iositio-nthrow the pulverized soil toward the row, the foot 27 of the guard actingas a preventive against too much soil being thrown toward the row which might otherwise coverupsmall vegetables, and at the same time .throwing the surplus dirt..

away from the row. This foot also prevents the cultivator tearingup too much soil and thnsdisturb `the set of the young plants. The offset or foot 27 is not an indis Jensable feature in leveling oif the soil, as t e lower horizontal edge 21a-Fig.; 1-of the guard would'serve the same purpose equally well, but this foot, as before mentioned, serves to prevent stones being lifted by the cultivator wheels and thrown toward the row.

The large traction wheels 1 and 2 propel the cultivator, and the disk cultivator wheels are independently rotated, as before men- 'tioned, by the grip of the spo-kes20`with the ground. The forward `movement of the 'large traction wheels will naturally `propel wheels and rotate the em- It `is essential thatthe cultivator wheels be setat an angle the spo-ke traction In place of the spoke traction wheels being used to `rotate the thin cultivator disk the pulley 28-.Fig- 6-could be y to the row, as otherwise their use would be` worthlessfor the purpose required.

While I show the attachment applied to av hand operated cultivator, it will be understood that it can be applied to larger cultivators operated other than 'by hand adapted to cultivate between rowsof gro-wing plants.

Having thus described my invention, what I cla-im is l. Animprovement in cultivators comprising a disk cultivator wheel7 a rotatable support therefor, 'said wheel arranged at an angle with respect to the line of travel of the cultivator, means for rotating the wheel and a. 'guard adjacent 'to the wheel for the purpose described.` v v 2. An improvement in cultivators comprising a disk cultivator wheel, a. shaft on which the wheel is mounted, a support "in 'to rotate the lguard adjacent to thewheel for the purpose ing the wheel, a soil leveling guard adjacent to the wheel, and means for effecting a lateral and vertical adjustment of the guard.

3. An improvement in cultivators comprising a. disk cultivator wheel, a shaft on which the wheel is mounted, an adjustable support in which the shaft is journaled, a driver on said shaft adapted to contact with the ground when the cultivator is in motion disk wheel, and an adjustable set forth.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my slgnature in' presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK F. MEEKER.

which the shaft is journaled, means for lVitnesses:

effecting both a horizontal and vertical ad- JAMES FEELEY,

justment of said support, means for rotat- H. A. LAMB.

Copies of thijs patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, D. C. 

